This article reviews and clarifies the definition, history, usage and impact of, and criticism toward, the various concepts of biodiversity hotspots.Ana S.L. RodriguesEncyclopedia of Biodiversity (Second Edition)
Through SARA, Canada recognizes the need to conserve biodiversity below the species-level when appropriate, and mandated COSEWIC to do so. COSEWIC therefore considers Designatable Units (DUs) in their definition of wildlife species: subspecies, varieties, or populations that are both discrete, ...
evergreen broadleaf trees (median 7.6% of the model’s predictive power), human population density (6.9%), Global Environmental Stratification (climate) (5.9%), and mammal species richness (an aspect of biodiversity) (5.6%) had the largest relative influence over the distribution of EID events...
Arguments for or against a trend in the evolution of complexity are weakened by the lack of an unambiguous definition of complexity. Such definitions aboun... C Adami - 《Bioessays》 被引量: 532发表: 2002年 The Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forest A short introduction by the editors...
Thus, we urge caution in interpreting the role of freshwater stress and storage in driving differences in these biodiversity distributions. The most vulnerable populations to freshwater stress and storage loss To better characterize social vulnerability, freshwater stress and storage loss must be placed ...
significant impacts of land use change, deforestation, carbon emissions, and loss of biodiversity. The “finishing” pig production stage contributes most to these environmental impacts, due to the amount of feed consumed, the efficiency with which feed is utilised, and the amount of manure ...
Malaria claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year, most of them children. A “malaria-free world” is the World Health Organization’s vision, but elimination from the southeast Asian Region is hampered by factors including anti-malarial resistance
Currently, we lack an understanding of the threat of N deposition to biodiversity at the global scale. In particular, rates of N deposition within the newly defined 34 world biodiversity hotspots, to which 50% of the world's floristic diversity is restricted, has not been quantified previously....
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Distribution, congruence, and hotspots of higher plants in China received: 23 March 2015 accepted: 12 November 2015 Published: 11 January 2016 Lina Zhao1,2,*, Jinya Li3,*, Huiyuan Liu1 & Haining Qin1 Identifying biodiversity hotspots has become a...
Biodiversity hotspots are centers of biological diversity and particularly threatened by anthropogenic activities. Their true magnitude of species diversity and endemism, however, is still largely unknown as species diversity is traditionally assessed us